Features // Meera Dattani

Imagine checking-in with your thumbprint, using your smartphone as a room key or opening your hotel door to find a robot butler handing over the extra towel you requested from front desk. It may all sound pie-in-the-sky, but these are the types of initiatives operating or being researched and tested in the travel industry. Here…

Don’t head for the hills (or the overcrowded beaches and resorts) as soon as you land in Málaga and you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Meera Dattani lets us in on the best things to do in Málaga, one of Spain’s most underrated cities. A strange thing happens at Málaga airport. Almost everyone grabs their luggage and heads for…

In anticipation of this year’s Commonwealth Games, Meera Dattani finds out how to explore Glasgow on a bike. There are no brakes. The gears are fixed. Your shoes are clipped into the pedals and don’t clip out with ease. You’re essentially attached to your bike. Then there’s the bigger question of how do you slow…

Cape Town has been crowned World Design Capital 2014 – a celebration of a city that has used design as a tool to reinvent themselves and improve the lives of its residents. Meera Dattani went to discover what Cape Town has done to deserve this title. You hear the word “design” and an image forms…

Many people seem to skip the Cambodian capital and head straight for Siem Reap, fearing Phnom Penh to be a dangerous and uninteresting city. However, on a recent trip to Southeast Asia’s “unpopular capital”, Meera Dattani discovered all that the city has to offer and has concluded that, while its underrated and understated, Phnom Penh…